An American man arrested for robbing a bank posted a photo and videos of the theft on social media

Britain: A vicar stopped from going in to a wine bar on Easter Sunday because he was wearing his trademark sandals hopes to return because they “do great mojitos”.

Well it's ok for a fireman to rescue a cat isn’t it?

Two FBI special agents on the agency’s elite Hostage Rescue Team have been killed in a training accident in Virginia.

A pizza shop in the US has been offering discount to anyone who takes a gun with them to buy one of the tasty treats.

The US military is investigating the apparent suicide of a Navy SEAL commander in Afghanistan.

All residents of an apartment complex in Virginia which was hit by a US Navy jet have miraculously survived, it has been confirmed.

It took Obama’s advert to attract viewers to the baseball world series final. Conor Ryan reports from Washington DC.

US Christian broadcaster Pat Robertson has suggested that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s stroke was divine punishment for “dividing God’s land.”

A US jury was considering today whether Washington sniper Lee Malvo should live or die, after the teenager was convicted of capital murder over the three-week reign of terror.

A jury convicted Lee Boyd Malvo of capital murder in the Washington-area sniper attacks today, rejecting claims that the teenager was brainwashed by John Allen Muhammad into taking part in the three-week reign of terror that left 10 people dead.

The jury in the Washington sniper murder trial of Lee Malvo was due to consider its verdict today, after hearing closing arguments from both sides in the case.

A cocky Lee Malvo laughed repeatedly during a police interrogation as he recounted some of last year’s Washington sniper attacks, saying of one victim, ”He was hit good. Dead immediately”, a detective told the murder trial.

“I INTENDED to kill them all.”

In a chilling audio tape played for the jury, a soft-spoken Lee Malvo told police he pulled the trigger in all of the sniper attacks that terrified the Washington area.

Washington sniper John Muhammad was waiting today to hear if he would face the death penalty after being convicted of using a high-powered rifle, a battered car and a teenage sidekick to murder and terrorise people.

A teenager accused of being one of the Washington snipers went on trial for his life today.

The trial of Washington sniper suspect John Lee Malvo will not be postponed to allow time for a mental health expert to examine him, a judge ruled.

Washington sniper suspect John Muhammad gave up trying to be his own lawyer and put his fate back in the hands of his court-appointed lawyers, after two days of courtroom fumbling.

Sniper suspect John Allen Muhammad changed his mind today and stopped acting as his own lawyer at his trial after only one day of cross-examining witnesses.

Sniper suspect John Allen Muhammad withdrew a request today that might have allowed him to introduce mental health evidence at sentencing to persuade a jury to spare his life.

ONE of two men accused of the Washington sniper shootings pleaded not guilty as his murder trial began yesterday.

A 42-year-old man entered not guilty pleas today at the beginning of a trial over the killing of 10 people during a three-week reign of terror in and around Washington last year.

The trial of one of the Washington serial sniper suspects, accused of killing 10 people during a three-week reign of terror, was due to begin today.

The large eye of a weakened Hurricane Isabel crossed the coastal islands off North Carolina today as the storm pounded the coast.

A man was beginning a life sentence in the United States today after he admitted kidnapping and murdering a 67-year-old Irish nun.

POLICE in the US were last night hunting a crazed killer who decapitated a Cork City-born nun after shooting his father 16 times with two different rifles.

Police in the US believed tonight they had found the dismembered body of an Irish nun who had been abducted by a 25-year-old man shortly after he had murdered his father.

The Virginia Beach community was today in a state of shock after a shark killed a 10-year-old boy in the first fatal shark attack in the United States this year.